Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in IBM Java SDK affects IBM Operations Analytics Predictive Insights (CVE-2016-5546, CVE-2016-5548, CVE-2016-5549, CVE-2016-5547, CVE-2016-2183)

Summary

Vulnerability in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, Version 7 Service Refresh 9 Fix Pack 60 that is used by IBM Operations Analytics Predictive Insights 1.3.5. This issue was disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in January 2017.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-5546** *DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Libraries component has no confidentiality impact, high integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120869 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2016-5548**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the Libraries component could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information resulting in a high confidentiality impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120864 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2016-5549**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the Libraries component could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information resulting in a high confidentiality impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120863 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2016-5547**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the Libraries component could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a low availability impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120871 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2016-2183**
DESCRIPTION:** OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error in the DES/3DES cipher, used as a part of the SSL/TLS protocol. By capturing large amounts of encrypted traffic between the SSL/TLS server and the client, a remote attacker able to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack could exploit this vulnerability to recover the plaintext data and obtain sensitive information. This vulnerability is known as the SWEET32 Birthday attack.
CVSS Base Score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/116337 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Operations Analytics Predictive Insights 1.3.5 and earlier

Remediation/Fixes

Product

| VRMF| Remediation/First Fix
—|—|—
IBM Operations Analytics Predictive Insights| 1.3.0,
1.3.1,
1.3.2,
1.3.3,
1.3.4,
1.3.5| See work around

Workarounds and Mitigations

Installation Instructions
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As the user that installed the Predictive Insights UI component, e.g scadmin
1. Download java-sdk-7.0.10.1 from Fix Central
2. Stop the UI server used by IBM Operations Analytics Predictive Insights
/<UI_HOME>/bin/pi.sh -stop
where UI_HOME is typically /opt/IBM/scanalytics/UI
3. cd <UI_HOME>
4. Rename JAVA SDK installation folder
mv ibm-java-x86_64-70 ibm-java-x86_64-70_orig
5. untar ibm-java-sdk-7.0-10.1-linux-x86_64.tgz into <UI_HOME> folder (this will create a new ibm-java-x86_64-70 folder in <UI_HOME>)
6. start UI server
<UI_HOME>/bin/pi.sh -start

Remove Update Instructions
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As the user that installed the Predictive Insights UI component, e.g scadmin
1. Stop the UI server used by IBM Operations Analytics Predictive Insights
<UI_HOME>/bin/pi.sh -stop
where UI_HOME is typically /opt/IBM/scanalytics/UI
3. cd <UI_HOME>
4. mv ibm-java-x86_64-70 ibm-java-x86_64-70_iFix
5. Replace the JAVA SDK installation folder with the original
mv ibm-java-x86_64-70_orig ibm-java-x86_64-70
6. start UI server
<UI_HOME>/bin/pi.sh -start